Win VIP tickets to San Francisco's Treasure Island Music Festival (10/13-10/14)!

The always-fantastic Treasure Island Music Festival returns to the San Francisco Bay Area on October 13 and 14. The exquisitely-curated line-up includes the likes of Girl Talk, The XX, M83, Joanna Newsom, Public Enemy, Youth Lagoon, Grimes, War On Drugs, and more than a dozen other acts. Our pals at Noise Pop, co-promoters of the event, have provided us a pair of VIP 2-Day Tickets (a $479 value) to give to Boing Boing readers. VIP includes preferred viewing area next to main stage, tented lounge with access to full liquor bar, private restroom facilities (yay!) and access to special VIP food concessions. Here's how to win 'em:

Write a Haiku about your favorite band performing at the festival. Here's the full line-up. The Haiku must consist of three lines, with the first line containing 5 syllables, the second containing 7 syllables, and the third line containing 5 syllables. Then post your Haiku in the comments of this thread. You have until 11:59pm tomorrow (Tuesday, 9/25). On Thursday (9/27), I'll post our three favorites. Those finalists will each receive a Boing Boing t-shirt! On Friday (9/28), I'll announce the winner. Please only one entry per person. Good luck!!!

• [rekoil]

  The Presets’ new “Ghosts”
  A digital sea shanty
  Better than it sounds.

• [rekoil]

  Fixed the prior entry. Counting syllables is hard.

• [dr_awkward]

  How does a Girl Talk?
  Unstoppable All Day in
  Secret Diaries.

• [Navin_Johnson]

  Love that Haysi Fantayzee video!  

• [dfoic]

  Though the lead sounds like
  Herbert from Family Guy
  Youth Lagoon rocks out

• [Sharaya Olmeda]

  Flav’s Role in Public Enemy:

  effects of drugs wear
  on powerful messages
  once poignant now dim

• [pfooti]

  there are some dragons
  who are built to have and hold
  they sting terribly

  — adapted from Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie by Joanna Newsom

  Woops. Just noticed the date – I’ll be in another state that weekend. Oh well. Leaving the haiku anyway.

• [Stacie Furia]

  Rearranging sound
  to become something more than
  before. Now: Girl Talk.

• [neboyce]

  The War on Drugs is

  Our Public Enemy one.

  Let’s commence The Coup.

  • [rat bat blue]

    “Ya got ta fight the power…ya got ta fight the powers that be…”

    “This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no foolin’ around…”

    “I bought it, so I’ll bluddy well boot it!”

• [mbarnsdale]

  The XX… Awesome
  Native San Fran, my birthplace
  XX and home? Sweet!

• [James Oborne]

  Not pirate’s booty
  Grimey Girl Talk electro
  Get some at T.I.

• [Desiree Cook]

  Gossiping Girl Talk

  SBTRKT-ING my love for yours

  On the Best Coast dear.

• [Grant Christopherson]

  Landfill, Music, Mayhem
  Escape from the daily grind
  Joy blankets the crowd

• [Ronny Kerr]

  in the treasured fog,
  mr. bleak black city beams
  me dear techno dreams.

  much love to Matthew Dear and the best-placed music festival in the bay :)

• [joseph arruda]

  Sounds from the island
  makes the joy rise like the tides
   I am full of beer

• [Ryan Flynn]

  Oh Toro y Moi
  Lollapalooza we met
  Please let me love you again

• [Keri-Ann Oddman]

  Porter robinson

  Twenty year old prodigy

  First class Electro 

• [Paul Atwood]

  Fits of the Divine
  Furriest Handsome Wolf Spoon
  Britt Dan Sam, Goddamn!

• [Jonathan Espinosa]

  he wears tribal masks.
  live percussion, he performs
  pharaohs and wildfire

  -sbtrkt

• [rachel rosenson]

  At this island Fest
  The music is the treasure
  Shitting bricks excited

• [Gonzalo Ferreyra]

  Minnie Mouse’s voice,
  a visit to the future:
  Listening to Grimes

• [idb1204]

  Dance party All Day
  Girl Talk keeps our feet moving
  Never stop the fun

• [Daniel Rekshan]

  Joanna Newsome’s
  name is five syllables, but
  music is infinity.

• [Ben Cornell]

  M83 with
  a beautiful bay backdrop
  probably won’t suck.

  • [Ben Cornell]

    ^ me.

• [Aimal]

  French guy with bombast
  Lately fond of saxophone
  Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

• [cooter]

  vancouver’s grimes, whose
  sister says the saddest things,
  lived on the river

• [Ben Cornell]

  btw, that was me, not sure why it doesn’t show my name.

• [Darren Murphy]

  The awesome Presets,
  An electro duo set,
  They’ll soak you in sweat.

• [JS]

  we let music live
  wander through the XX sin
  let the best sex win

• [Alwyslet]

  Girl talking, wild, pow!
  Jumping, screaming, fun times, wow!
  Treasure island now!

• [jaxxy1979]

  Listen when the Girl Talks
  Mashing the hip hop and soul
  She’ll make you dance hard

• [JoshuaEspinosa]

  sounds like a whisper
  electronic drums, brooding
  it goes on and on
  - the xx

• [Ragnar Egilsson]

  Crab, Cockle, Cowrie
  Peach, plum, pear – wish I was there
  You win some -  Newsom

• [yves]

  Dancing on my own
  no more – here is a whole crowd
  for Toro y Moi

• [Dan Bowen]

  Counting syllables
  Should I write M Eighty Three
  or spell M 8 3?

• [anica]

  Music to my ears
  In the bay my favorites play
  Youth Lagoon lets swim 

• [NeemaRahimi]

  no contact info on this profile – see new post with contactable profile

• [neema29]

  Contains allusions to my favorite band ever, M83.

  Fuzzy synths aglow
  hurry up, we are dreaming
  of where the boats go

• [Abigail]

  Two six point two miles
  in the morning, but at night
  Los Campesinos!

• [mrambulancedriver]

  How to describe Grimes:
  Canadian Space Mermaid,
  A Cyborg Banshee!

• [erin murray]

  Beth Ditto can wail!
  That girl’s voice makes my toes curl.
  Gossip, you got it. 

• [Justin Caffier]

  I can’t explain why

  Grimes makes me think of Rugrats.
  That’s not a complaint.

• [tahoeskier]

  When I get homesick
  BEST COAST always takes me to
  CALIFORNIA

• [bobcorrigan]

  Alas, I am old,
  and I know none of the bands
  appearing there.  Sigh.

• [Isaac Solomon]

  I’m about to win. 
  A haiku writing contest?
  I was born for this. 

• [laemro58]

  Treasure of music
  Tremendous view of beauty
  Magical moments

• [Gabriel Rooney]

  Matthew Dear is there
  do I really call him that?
  ‘cuz I’m not his mom

• [Brant Olson]

  capitalist pigs
  concede power to no one
  except Boots Riley

• [hypersomniac]

  for joanna:

  milk-eyed sirens’ call
  harp sung somber tones
  echo the ocean

  • [Marty Blanket Ingels II]

    you should listen to
    Harpsicorpse’s album “Suite For
    Harpsichord”. FROSTY.

• [Marty Blanket Ingels II]

  It’s ironic that
  P.E. should play Treasure Isle,
  not Alcatraz, no?

• [Isaac Solomon]

  Subtract the vowels,

  from the word “subtract” spelled wrong,

  SBTRKT’s the result.

• [Lee Hepner]

  A drum resonates
  from beyond the youth lagoon
  toward the sunset.

• [Lee Hepner]

  A drum resonates
  from beyond the youth lagoon
  toward the sunset.

• [Ryan Thalken]

  Stay inside your head
  Ty Segall is home again 
  Making the grass grow 

• [Jon Uniql D’souza]

  Ditto spins a phrase
  M83 swirls icy blue luster
  Newsom harps on it

  -JD

• [catherine le]

  Oh I’ve been waiting 
  Desperately. And my heart
   is here, Grimes, off-beat.

  (homage to Grimes’ song Vanessa)

• [akatoncesaid]

  SBTRKT, GirlTalk, Grimes.

  It will make my Ex jealous.

  Help me break his heart. 

• [vibrotronica]

  Public Enemy, 1988

  Terminator X
  Was a member of the group.
  Don’t believe the hype!

• [stephanie c]

  one hundred percent
  his language fills me with love
  dare i say his name?

  -stephanie for porter robinson

• [Hai Trinh]

  Though the city glooms
  M Eighty Three shines the way
  The Bay surrounds us

• [stephanie c]

  one hundred percent
  his language fills me with love
  dare i say his name?

  (sorry for the accidental double post! i don’t know why my name isn’t showing up next to it… =)

• [supermaxy]

  Biomedical
  cramming hundreds of samples
  illegal art form

• [Richard Smith]

  Grimes is on my my screen
  My birthday is that weekend
  I hope to go there

• [Kelly Pratt]

  Gossip, jealous girls
  Girl talk will help let it out
  Grimes beast infection

• [powerofslack]

  Free your brainwashed mind
  To fight the powers that be
  Chuck D sees the fnords

• [johneevee]

  sbtrkt u from me
  at t i fest we will be
  public enemies

• [minorfires]

  Ostrich farm – worth it?
  They’re just not the same without
  Terminator X

• [doughbro47]

  Los Campesinos!
  A British Twee/Hardcore band?
  Their songs break my heart.

• [Jerome Kainoahemolele Tabar]

  Long Island critics
  rap metal never pauses;
  the tour that happened.

• [Kyle Dovenbarger]

  Dictaphone’s Lament
  a night drive, the smell of rain
  Tycho ebb & flow

• [DJ DIAPERZ]

  Quell not Divine Fits!
  Protracted rhythms thicken;
  Rainbows spill from eyes.

• [jimmykinkade]

  Do you need a permit for a concert like this?

• [branng]

  (yoo hoo! I yoo hoo!)
  Treasure Island waking dream:
  Imperial Teen

• [Jeff Mailes]

  Together we dance,
  renewing beats from the past.
  Girl Talk brings it back!

• [Joseph James Ording III]

  Girl Talk makes me dance
  Spasming and convulsing
  Strange looks at the gym

• [Anne Allison]

  Music and dancing,
  maybe some radiation. . .
  Thanks Treasure Island!

• [Nicole Cassese]

  Cut. Crystal. Watch Me
  XX distress repress fold
  Undone now made whole.

• [Russell Walks]

  Love the Double X
  He says, staring at her shirt.
  Man, she hates liars.

• [Jason Luz]

  Plucking bridge cables,
  she transmorgifies ocean
  air as she warbles.

• [popsicklestar]

  They need no vowels.
  subdued, special sort of math,
  soft sounds of SBTRKT

• [Rachel Visalda]

  gold chain: love is hard.
  steve jobs’ turtleneck sweater:
  black, just like their hearts

  - for the xx

• [Patrick Casey]

  Young ladies converse
  An avalanche of samples
  No license in sight

• [Large Mammal]

  jism filled bullet
  shot by former sex-pistol
  rotten now lydon

• [jan fisico]

  hippie hippie scene 
  music fills up in my dreams
  fulfill with tickets

• [timmayer]

  Highway swimming in
  The kingdom of midnight skin
  And our endless youth 

  -for M83

• [Alexander B Fry]

  Echos trespassing
  go in me crystalline too
  far a solitude

• [lalalalaur]

  My Heart Skipped a Beat

  When The XX Melody

  Captivated Me

• [p9ooo]

  haiku for the coup
  the kickstart’d bus is new
  bringing boots to you

• [timmayer]

  Highway swimming in
  The kingdom of midnight skin
  And our endless youth

  -for M83

• [Anders Arson]

  A five hour drive
  From Humboldt to Treasure Isle
  Music worth the time.

• [spalko]

  Public Enemy
  is tougher and blacker than
  Folsom Street leather

• [Brian Brady]

  I just want to go!!!
  Chuck D and M83??
  French for f’shizzle?!

• [grapegatorade]

  Pirate named ‘Girl Talk’
  takes the stage and steals all the
  Treasure Isle booty

• [Andrew Brian Farris]

  Public Enemy
  Never said Fuck the Police
  But Sting cries anyway

  • [Andrew Brian Farris]

    Dang, I wasn’t logged in. Am now. Hurray!

• [Vincent V-Train Trinh]

  As “XX” once said
  “Light reflects from your shadow”
  Music binds lovers’ souls

• [Vincent V-Train Trinh]

  As “XX” once said
  “Light reflects from your shadow”
  Music binds lovers’ souls

• [Patrick Roach]

  Haunting guitar riffs
  Touch something deep inside me
  They are The XX

• [Blake Lowe]

  Joanna Newsom
  I cry when I hear your voice
  Please break up with me?

• [Blake Lowe]

  I didn’t read the directions properly…

• [Blake Lowe]

  …and couldn’t figure out how to delete my entries.

• [terry childers]

  Public Enemy
  Night of the Living Baseheads
  I’m talkin’ ’bout BASS!

• [Joseph V]

  the youth lagoon song
  used in that skype commercial
  saved me in prison

• [terry childers]

   The XX- great band
  a constant reminder that
  looks ain’t everything

• [joygunlore]

  My ex got into
  XX. Oh, we didn’t last.
  Lo, XO no mo’.

• [deepcut]

  To Beth of Gossip,
  No ticket, and no worries
  Your voice spans the bay

• [Teddy Wu]

  M83 will start
  When Midnight strikes the City
  Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

• [entropia]

  Feminine chatter
  it’s not; we will shake it to
  Gossip and Girl Talk

• [ridinagrvytrain]

  XX: My Soundtrack
  to stoned lawn meanderings
  sight line? Unlikely

• [daemonsquire]

  araabMUZIK makes
  me aware I could better
  control my twitching.

• [monmatmildew]

  I puked all over
  Ty Segal’s tour van once
  Not a proud day. Nope.

• [Richard]

  October thirteenth
  Treasure Island with Grimes and…
  My birthday weekend

• [AIMendez]

  I Hear Matthew Dear
  The Fear is here within us
  Quick! Get me a beer!

• [AIMendez]

  i think i tried to rhyme too hard,

• [whiskey93]

  transcendent gallic

  pop. classic hip hop. perhaps

  the scent of the sea?

• [Ruth Vernotico]

  Grimes is so cray cray

  she smokin’ weed and tweeting

  did video high

• [grapegatorade]

  A clock-necked jester
  joins perennial Chuck D
  shouting rhyme and truth

• [mtzbinden]

  T.I. is my pie
  For P.E. I just might cry
  So pray to the sky

• [Ari Frink]

  Joanna “Toothsome”
  Your face on my retainer
  Relic from high school

• [Ari Frink]

  If I win, I will post a picture of my retainer with J-New’s face on it! I’ll even wear it to Treasure Island!

• [rat bat blue]

   This coup ain’t for chickens or pigeons either. Let’s roll.

• [Jason James O’Leary]

  Los Campesinos!
  No sign of you in London
  San Fran here we come!

• [Jason James O’Leary]

  Me and my friend are actually coming over to San Francisco from London while this festival is on! Would be amazing!

• [rat bat blue]

   See post further downpage. It belongs here with us, Karras…exorcise time.

• [Janette Sylvian]

  My heart is beating
  Anticipating xx
  Let me hear them play

• [rat bat blue]

  umm, both these ‘posts’ are actually replies to neboyce uppage. I hate being fucked with.

• [Scottie Lee Meyers]

  I do not prefer
  East or West, It’s Wisconsin’s
  COASTline I like BEST

• [Mike Zardozian]

  a magical voice
  beautiful space synths and beats
  grimes has a cute lisp

• [Sean M.]

  Life is bittersweet
  Feel the pulse, the New York streets
  Hospitality

• [Chris Booda Reguilon]

  Yo Bum Rush the Show
  Chuck D and Flavor Flav will
  Bring the noise BOY-EE

• [Keisar Betancourt]

  once upon a time
  a new east bay resident
  won some cool tickets

• [MichaelP]

  Grimes makes us music,
  Makes us dance, makes us happy,
  Makes us… “pussy rings”?

• [jave]

  telekinetics
  escape control, set the sun
  defeat the wheelchair

• [TionTunes]

  Public Enemy
  it demands tickets quickly
  to San Francisco

• [penguinchris]

  mark f’s daughter did
  interview best coast a while
  back on boingboing, yay

• [oxenhandler]

  It Takes a Nation
  came out when i was thirteen
  i wore black a lot

• [Vi Son T]

  Wind kisses our ears
  As the heaven sky opens
  Sounds of Youth Lagoon

• [Nathaniel Kerksick]

  Green and sunset pink
  Machine sounds of the jungle
  It must be SBTRKT

• [Nathaniel Kerksick]

  California muse
  Enchant this treasured island
  And have one on me

• [ashley peters]

  wild hands spin wild notes
  harp-made dreamscapes fill my brain
  visions, joanna

• [Ian Miller]

  Island in the bay
  Best Coast rocks my west coast
  dance pants lost in time

• [coreyb83]

  araabMuzik makes
  My A.D.H.D. jitters
  look like sweet dance moves

• [new dimensions]

  Airy dream pop for

  post-modern, Internet age?

  Must be Grimes on stage.

• [lolokerrigan]

  We play in sound waves
  created by the Best Coast
  along the best coast.

• [Donald Lathbury]

  Heavenly strings sing
  Treasured Cali hymns praising 
  Joanna Newsom

• [James Francis O’Claire]

  M manufactured
  8 nostalgic school moments
  3 worth remembering

• [branduhly]

  anonymity
  behind the mask and the name
  sbtrk all but music

• [gin78]

  The sun shines on Grimes
  At Treasure Island. Two Brits,
  With no ticks, sad face

• [Per Ardua Ad Astra]

  I like festivals
  San Francisco sounds quite rad
  Give me your tickets

• [Carol Chappell]

  Treasure Island fey
  Joanna Newsom plucking
  Harp strings, my heart sings

• [Adam Schwartz]

  Don’t make me decide
  What a great lineup this year.
  Hello Vee Eye Pee

• [crusty crale]

  on why joanna newsom is so goddamn alluring:

  Armani? My ass!
  It’s your voice, your voice. YOUR VOICE!
  Ok, and your eyes.

• [theflesh]

  araabMUZIK plays
  close my eyes and drift away
  clouds make comfy homes

• [Skylight Studios]

  and so iT seems, you  
  line the Isles with k flay dreaMs
  Feast our ears with two

• [bbonyhadi]

  I blow two kisses,
  Sounds shift, they miss – hitting where
  The xx were were

• [bbonyhadi]

  Ugh, too many good artists – I’ve started calling this the BoingBoing cleverness conundrum.

• [Stacy Smith]

  Ethereal sounds
  Bathed in the languishing light
  Rapt oblivion

  //Grimes//

• [bbonyhadi]

  Argh, my partner tries
  To post, but Disqus will not
  Let him log me out.

• [bbonyhadi]

  Argh, my partner tries
  To post, but Disqus will not
  Let him log me out.

• [mandelben]

  Are ears the door, then?
  Closed my eyes, but Dirty Ghosts
  Haunt this tarnished soul.

• [roid]

  This is just one guy
  Amazing layered mixes
  Happy listening

• [Ambrose Colombo]

  My favorite isle,
  Gave me the Girl and The Sea,
  City Skyline, wow!

  Asked this girl I had a crush on, out on a date following the Flaming Lips in ’09, and we’ve been together since! 

• [Nat Kramer]

  For Joanna Newsom–

  Bleed my living heart!
  Yr sickle cleaves this moment-
  How sweet the harvest.

• [Anthony Ackshawn Catanzaro]

  “What It’s All About”

  The Michael/Queen Crescendo,

  Girl Talk’s masterpiece.

• [Fair Yolkai]

  the best valentines
  after all the these years with you
  was xx in bed

• [Adam Gilgoff]

  her neck, my lips, we
  tangle. the xx play, blown
  by the bay’s fall winds

• [Brian Hoeber]

  Public Enemy
  Still brings the noise something fierce,
  Don’t believe the hype.

• [sawdust23]

  projecting sweetly 
  a rarity in gingham
  tears at our heartstrings